05 11 / 2018
Hi Friends! It’s me, I’m still alive.
I just wanted to chime in with my 2 cents about voting.
I have seen a lot of posts with people talking about the first time they voted, how exciting it was, encouraging people to vote.
I am just here to say that my first time voting was fine, unmemorable– John Kerry lost, Barack Obama was elected to the Senate, ok. (I also voted in the primary that year. I love voting!)
But I will never forget the first election I was eligible to vote in, bc I didn’t vote. I was a sophomore in college, and I just… didn’t know how. I didn’t really understand what the midterms were, and I really didn’t understand how to vote, either in my college town or in my home state.
And I will never, never forget the results of that night, when voters in my home state of Georgia elected a republican governor for the first time since reconstruction. Since reconstruction! I remember talking on the phone to my dad that night, going over the results, and feeling so bummed. And feeling like I had a little to do with it. This was pre-facebook, pre-twitter, pre-anyone TALKING about it, but it still felt crappy.
I don’t think you can register to vote in the banana state of Georgia anymore, but Illinois, where I live now, has DAY OF VOTER REGISTRATION. It’s ok to just show up with a utility bill and say, please help me vote! The poll workers will help you!
And not sure who to vote for? think about the issues you care about generally, and VOTE THE PARTY LINE. This is completely acceptable. It is. You do not have to vote for the perfect person. You can vote the party line, and you can even skip the judicial elections. We shouldn’t be voting for judges anyway!
There. My two cents on voting. Go forth, young ones, and do not live with my regret.
24 9 / 2018
Creamy Chicken with Noodles - The Midnight Baker
I made this (basically, I cooked my own chicken and used fresh carrots and added onion and thickened with corn starch bc I think adding raw flour to liquid never works and tastes, well, floury) and it was SO DELICIOUS and we all ate it and there were no leftovers and it took approx 30 minutes including cutting the vegetables and thawing the chicken. It would be even faster with different noodles (I used no yolks which take forever but manischewitz are faster).
It was a literal winner winner chicken dinner, and is going in the rotation for sure.
reblogging this old gem bc I want to make it this week and I don’t want to forget.
18 9 / 2018
Head of Youth Services | RAILS: Reaching Across Illinois Library System
We’re hiring! Do you want to come work with me? This is an awesome job at a very nice library that I love (today is my 5 year anniversary!) despite my complaints about it. What is the internet for if not for only complaining about things? Anyway I love it here and I think you should apply to come work with me, assuming you are a YS person with appropriate experience.
Wahoo!
05 9 / 2018
someone please send me a rothy’s referral code I gotta get these shoes
05 9 / 2018
Guys I watched all of Del Potro-Isner yesterday and I was so pumped to watch Serena and then I put the baby to bed and went into the den with a very sour lemon italian ice and pulled up the recording and it was not there so I said no big deal I will just watch the last set and Y’ALL it was OVER Serena beat her in two and I missed the entire thing!
Then I watched some of Rafa-Thiem and omg it was so hot and rafa was so sweaty and I made it almost three sets before I went to bed and Adam says it went until 1 am our time in a tiebreaker!
Dear Tennis, I have been a fan for approx 8 days (but I’m committed) and I think that 5 sets is too long and everyone should be playing 3. Thanks!
04 9 / 2018
My sweet coworker got me a chocolate bar the other day and I have been so not into chocolate lately but this is really mild, sweet swiss milk chocolate and it is so good and every time I eat a little piece of it it makes me so happy.
my work is still good, y’all, despite the current level of awful.
04 9 / 2018
This Del Potro-Isner match is BRUTAL. I just took a walk down the block and it was too hot for that, much less like 5 hours of tennis (no I’m not in new york but it’s approx the same weather here and there). Isner is so tall and I think he is going to melt down. Like when LeBron got too hot a few years ago and everyone made fun of him but when you are that large your body is DIFFERENT. Isner is 6′11 by the way.
Anyway I just discovered tennis as a sport to enjoy and boy am I enjoying it.
02 9 / 2018
I cannot stop thinking about Serena winning a grand slam tournament while 8 weeks pregnant.
GOAT.
31 8 / 2018
I realize that many of you may not know Johnny Johnny Yes Papa.
YOU’RE WELCOME.
31 8 / 2018
Are You Johny Johny or Papa?
The weirdest thing my child has ever done* was start chanting
JOHNNY JOHNNY YES PAPA
EATING SUGAR NO PAPA
TELLING LIES NO PAPA
OPEN YOUR MOUTH HAHAHA
If your child watches nursery rhymes on youtube (which she doesn’t around us, which is why it was so weird) your Johnny Johnny day is COMING.
*a close second was the other day when she looked at me and said in a low voice, “mama, only one human loves you.” toddlers are WEIRD.
31 8 / 2018
I think about this a lot
How poorly matt damon rationed his ketchup when he was on his all-potato diet.
30 8 / 2018
dialmformisandry replied to your post :
Has anyone else read A Little Life? And reflect…
I was like “am I just running with the wrong group because it seems like everyone goes there, but no one I know has”
lol SAME. I had to google it! (I mean, I knew it EXISTED, but I didn’t know a thing about it otherwise! let alone its life-changing powers!)
30 8 / 2018
alfa-lima-limon replied to your post:
Has anyone else read A Little Life? And reflect…
really?? the Alhambra? I’ve been avoiding that book but…I don’t know if I can now.
yep! a fairly pivotal scene happens in/around the alhambra. as I said, it is a LOT of book (literally, I had the paper copy and ended up switching to ebook bc it was so heavy!) but also in terms of what happens. There is a LOT of abuse, which I knew and would warn anyone about, but it will not impact your reading experience if you skim/mostly skip the portions about abuse. You can get it, and the depths of misery the abuse caused, without reading the extreme details. Beyond, that, it’s a beautiful book!
